Luiseño

The Luiseño language was traditionally spoken on the San Luis Rey River, from the coast to its headwaters above Lake Henshaw, and to the south, as well as on the upper Santa Margarita River and around Lake Elsinore-Temecula. In pre-contact times, there may have between 3000 and 4000 speakers of Luiseño (Kroeber 1925). Today, there are no first-language speakers (Elliot 2002).